The Guardian reports that the UN's special rapporteur on torture has
made a formal approach to the US government regarding the Judge Rotenberg Center.
The Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts,
is believed to be the only institution in the world in which disabled
and disturbed children are subjected to electric shocks to in a system
known called "aversive therapy".
It certainly says something when the United Nations focuses on a single school in the town of Canton, Massachusetts.
...Mendez was himself subjected to torture
by electric shock at the hands of the Buenos Aires police in 1975.
My own view is that it doesn't matter whether the method works or not. You could easily get school children to obey the teacher if you had them all routinely waterboarded. That doesn't make it a good idea.
This is the second time the UN has intervened over the school. Mendez's
predecessor as torture rapporteur, Manfred Nowak, also called for a
federal US investigation.
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